Dino Attanasio

Edoardo Attanasio aka Dino Attanasio ( born May 8, 1925 in Milan ) is an Italian comic book artist.

Career

As a young man Attanasio emigrated to Belgium and joined the staff of the magazine Tintin. For this magazine, he created the series in particular spaghetti ( Text: René Goscinny ) and Modeste et Pompon ( German: Mausi and Paul ). The latter series, he took over from André Franquin. From the mid- 1960s he also worked for Corriere dei Piccoli, the Italian magazine, for which he designed the series Ambrogio et Gino, Il colonnello Squilla e Pepè and Gianni Flash. For the Dutch magazines Pep and Eppo he drew from 1969 the humorous detective series Johnny Goodbye ( lyrics: Martin Lodewijk, Yves Duval and others). His later work includes the creation of a comic version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.

In Germany he is known primarily through the ranks Spaghetti, The Macaronis, Mausi and Paul and Johnny Goodbye. In addition, a story by Ambrogio et Gino appeared on German under the title Anatol & Son.

Works

• Fanfan et Polo (1950-1952)
• Uncle Paul (1951-1953)
• A l' assaut de l' Everest (1954-1955)
• On a volé Valentine ( 1954)
• Fawcett le forêt vierge naufragé de la (1956-1957)
• Spaghetti (1957-1986)
• Mausi and Paul (1959-1968)
• Huit chevaux en balade (1964 )
• Jimmy Stone (1964-1965)
• Le soleil of damnés (1983 )
• Il était une fois dans l' oued (1984 )
• Le Décaméron (1991 )